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In my last travel story I wrote about my visit to Istanbul during the summer of 2019. It is exactly two years ago on the last weekend of July I visited Istanbul for a short break. During my stay in this beautiful city, I spent an entire day exploring the wonderful sights and ended the day enjoying a performance by Sufi mystics at the Hodjapasha Cultural Centre. I was picked up after breakfast from my hotel, and in this travel story I will share brief details of the sights that I visited along with some photos of each. My tour started off from the Hippodrome.Read More →

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In my last travel story about Dusseldorf I mentioned that I took a day trip to Cologne from there. Here I am writing about my memories from that day trip to Cologne. After spending a beautiful day at Dusseldorf and a well deserved rest, the next morning after breakfast, I walked up to Dusseldorf Hauptbahnhof. From here I took a train to Cologne Main Station, Köln Hauptbahnhof. The journey time from Dusseldorf to Cologne is around 20 minutes on a fast train and it covers a distance of around 35 kms. Cologne is the fourth-largest city in Germany after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich on the river Rhine. One of city’sRead More →

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While thinking about which place to write my next travel story about, I realised I have been to some German cities but have not written about any of them. So I decided to write about one the cities I visited few years back. It feels good to look back at the photos and remember the places I visited and share those experiences with everyone who reads my travel stories. The two cities which I visited on a short weekend trip were Dusseldorf and Cologne. As I was working full time then, I used to do quite a few European city breaks over the weekends. IRead More →